I’ve enrolled in a literature class!
I’ve put library school on hold for a while for the sake of my sanity. People think librarians are boring. And they are, but they didn’t start out boring, they were slowly ground down to a boring pulp by library school. When you’re so far gone you think copyright policy is fascinating, they give you your diploma. And your little gold glasses-chain to put round your neck. Well, they can brainwash me later, I’m going to have some fun first.
The literature class is part of a university course but you can drop in and out and do whatever modules you like. This one’s all modern literature so I’m hoping it’ll be like a slightly intellectual book club. I just hope when they say ‘modern’ they aren’t thinking in archaeological terms. In which case modern could mean anything post-Beowulf. God help us.
Surely you have to still be alive to count as modern? Or have died tragically young in the last 50 years. In which case I may have found the only literature course on earth that won’t force me to resolve my ongoing battle with Middlemarch. They haven’t sent me a reading list yet so I’ve no idea.
It starts next week, wish me luck.
Very funny post. I recently tried to find an evening class in literature here in DC and came up with nothing. All of the schools here are so focused on pumping out lawyers and bureaucrats they don't bother to offer anything at night to enrich the mind.
ReplyDeleteI'll be interested to hear about your experience, and how far back "modern" goes.
Good Luck! Sounds like fun - can't wait to read about what you are reading for your lit course. Hemingway, T.S.Eliot, Woolf, Kafka and Conrad should fall under that umbrella of modernism, right - should definitely be some great reads then!
ReplyDeleteI would love to enrol on this course. Are they held nationwide or is it local to where you live? I did complete 2 units of OU, the last being the literature one but haven't signed up for another course as I'm just not able to commit at the mo. I did buy Middlemarch but haven't read it! Had to order it from Waterstone's as it wasn't on the shelf! Assistant asked me who it was by!! and how to spell HIS name!!!!! I've just been to your reading list blog. Have just given up on 'The Night Watch' but you say you enjoy all her books. didn't know Mary Shelley had written a children's book either. Will be interested to see what your first book is on this course.
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